Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.